Spalding, oh Spalding

I was reading reviews of the late Spalding Gray's works on Amazon, and came across "It's a Slippery Slope," which I saw performed live at Dartmouth and thought was just terrible, terrible, terrible. It was just this guy sitting at a desk talking about skiing, and then about breaking up with his girlfriend after treating her really badly for years.

Apparently, no one has even thought to review this book on Amazon since Mr. Gray's suicide this past year, so I was initially rather shocked to see that the top review of the book has the headline "Maybe Natural Selection is not such a bad thing after all!"

Then I see the review was written in 2001, and the reviewer is merely hoping Spalding skis himself into a tree.